The New Partner in OTC Regulatory Compliance

While the data centre is essential to financial markets because it offers security, scalability and proximity, among other benefits, its value is growing for the OTC derivatives markets for another reason altogether: it’s the "right" neighbourhood.

Equinix's IBX® data centres protect and connect the critical digital assets of global financial services firms in the world’s top financial centres. Our global data centres provide a neutral meeting place for the world's financial community. Today, hundreds of capital markets participants, insurers and electronic payments firms colocate critical IT systems inside Equinix and interconnect to facilitate the operation of countless financial IT workloads. It all happens with the speed, security and reliability you expect from the world’s leading data centre provider.

The Insurance industry today faces increased complexity, more regulation and heightened consumer expectations, and that is straining IT systems, which must adapt in an efficient and cost-effective way. By moving IT infrastructure inside Equinix’s global data centres, insurers gain access to leading colocation facilities, guaranteeing the highest levels of data centre security and operational reliability worldwide. And our innovative Insurance Data Exchange ecosystem is an interconnection platform that simplifies the sharing of data between multiple stakeholders in global insurance markets – from life to property and casualty. Market participants directly connect to one another there, enhancing the performance of risk modeling systems and the consumption of cloud technologies, while lowering IT, bandwidth and network connectivity costs.

There are more ways than ever to make payments, handle purchases and manage finances electronically, and the options are expanding with the continued proliferation of mobile devices. These choices are changing behaviour, and that has created sky-high expectations for speed and convenience that require businesses to continuously adjust their payment networks to efficiently reach end users. Equinix’s global network-neutral data centres can help electronic payment firms, retail banks and service providers meet these escalating demands by allowing them to position payment infrastructure among the widest range of networks and critical components in the digital supply chain. This gives them the ability to quickly scale connectivity, storage and computing capacity and, above all, access innovative new services – all from one central location.

About Us

Equinix connects the world's leading businesses to their customers, employees and partners inside the world's most connected data centres in 52 markets across five continents. In Australia, Equinix's IBX data centres are present in the top 6 markets across the country, including Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Canberra, Adelaide and Brisbane.